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Inspiring Participatory Democracy: Student Movements from Port Huron to Today
Tom Hayden speaks in Port Huron, MI, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Port Huron Statement.
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Published by Tom Hayden, The Peace Exchange Bulletin is a reader-supported journal, critically following the Pentagon's Long War in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, as well as the failed U.S. wars on drugs and gangs, and U.S. military responses to nationalism and poverty around the world.
Federal prosecutors soon will be forced to admit that their star witness in the gang conspiracy case against Alex Sanchez is a fugitive still on a crime spree somewhere in Central America.
An intriguing and newsworthy moment in Oliver Stone's South of the Border comes as Stone describes a private meeting between presidents Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez at an April 2009 conference in Trinidad. With footage of a light-hearted Obama and Chavez on the screen, Stone narrates: "In private, so I'm told, the new man in Washington assured Chavez that under his administration there would be no further destabilization attempts or any interference in the internal affairs of Venezuela."
One hundred sixty-two House members, including a large majority of Democrats, sent a significant antiwar message to President Obama last night, forcing the White House to depend for Afghanistan war support on the Republicans who want to unseat the Democrats and Obama himself in upcoming elections.
Despite rhetoric about military patriots and wounded warriors, the White House, Pentagon and mainstream media have minimized attention to startling increases in Afghanistan deaths and casualties suffered by American troops since 2008.
The Peace and Justice Resource Center urges everyone to take the immediate steps of signing the Restore Democracy/End the War petition today.
President Obama may have saved his reputation as commander-in-chief by firing Stanley McChrystal today, but he deepened his Afghan quagmire by choosing David Petraeus as the replacement.
The 1968 generation lost one of its most brilliant, durable, cat-loving and principled voices with the passing of Carlos Monsivais in Mexico City this week. He was 72.
Forty-one American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan in the first three weeks of June, higher than previous numbers for any June since 2001. For example, 25 American troops were killed last June, and 28 in June 2008.
Former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing strongly condemned the West's war in Afghanistan in a recent conversation with this writer. Giscard d'Estaing, a self-described Barack Obama supporter who served as French president from 1974-81 and played a leading role in forging the European Union, was twice asked if NATO should get out of Afghanistan, and answered emphatically: "Absolutely. They never should have been there to begin with."
While Gen. Stanley McChrystal lobbied for more European funding for Afghanistan, NATO defense ministers agonized over pressure to slash their military spending further despite a $600 million shortfall in the 2010 budget.
Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 3:39PM